Problem with External Command File

[Andreas Ericsson]

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Can you clarify the "named-pipe"? Thanks. 
> 

"named pipe" is a nick-name for FIFO's that have a filesystem entry. Ie, 
it's actually a (very small) stream-buffer with First In First Out 
priority reading/writing that any process can connect to by opening a 
special file (the "named pipe") that exists on-disk.

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